June '06

May '06

• Isogawa Y, Kon T, Inoue T, Ohkura R, Yamakawa H, Ohara O, Sutoh K. The N-terminal domain of MYO18A has an ATP-insensitive actin-binding site. Biochemistry. 2005 Apr 26;44(16):6190-6.

• Speder P, Adam G, Noselli S. Type ID unconventional myosin controls left-right asymmetry in Drosophila. Nature. 2006 Apr 6;440(7085):803-7.
• Hozumi S, Maeda R, Taniguchi K, Kanai M, Shirakabe S, Sasamura T, Speder P, Noselli S, Aigaki T, Murakami R, Matsuno K. An unconventional myosin in Drosophila reverses the default handedness in visceral organs. Nature. 2006 Apr 6;440(7085):798-802.

• Loudon RP, Silver LD, Yee HF Jr, Gallo G. RhoA-kinase and myosin II are required for the maintenance of growth cone polarity and guidance by nerve growth factor. J Neurobiol. 2006 May 3; [Epub ahead of print]

• Yajima J, Cross RA. A torque component in the kinesin-1 power stroke. Nat Chem Biol. 2005 Nov;1(6):338-41. Epub 2005 Oct 9.

• Jacobson C, Schnapp B, Banker GA. A change in the selective translocation of the Kinesin-1 motor domain marks the initial specification of the axon. Neuron. 2006 Mar 16;49(6):797-804.

April '06

• Landeira-Fernandez AM, Morrissette JM, Blank JM, Block BA. Temperature dependence of the Ca2+-ATPase (SERCA2) in the ventricles of tuna and mackerel. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol. 2004 Feb;286(2):R398-404. Epub 2003 Nov 6.

• Sakamoto T, Yildiz A, Selvin PR, Sellers JR. Step-Size Is Determined by Neck Length in Myosin V. Biochem. 2005 44(49): 16203-16210.

• TBA - Please contact Jody Dantzig

March '06

• Lim GE, Derman AI, Pogliano J. Bacterial DNA segregation by dynamic SopA polymers. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 Dec 6;102(49):17658-63.

• Toyoshima C, Nomura H, Tsuda T. Lumenal gating mechanism revealed in calcium pump crystal structures with phosphate analogues. Nature. 2004 Nov 18;432(7015):361-8

• VanBuren V, Cassimeris L, Odde DJ. Mechanochemical model of microtubule structure and self-assembly kinetics. Biophys J. 2005 Nov;89(5):2911-26.

• Cai L, Friedman N, Xie XS. Stochastic protein expression in individual cells at the single molecule level.Nature. 2006 440:358-62.
• Yu J, Xiao J, Ren X, Lao K, Xie XS. Probing gene expression in live cells, one protein molecule at a time. Science. 2006 311:1600-3.

February '06

• Nyitrai M, Rossi R, Adamek N, Pellegrino MA, Bottinelli R, Geeves MA. What limits the velocity of fast-skeletal muscle contraction in mammals? J Mol Biol. 2006 Jan 20;355(3):432-42.

• Chen JF, Mandel EM, Thomson JM, Wu Q, Callis TE, Hammond SM, Conlon FL, Wang DZ. The role of microRNA-1 and microRNA-133 in skeletal muscle proliferation and differentiation.Nat Genet. 2006 Feb;38(2):228-33.

• Yuhong Wang, 10 minute platform talk
• Jenny Ross, 30 Motility Subgroup talk

January '06

• Amy Reilein, Soichiro Yamada, and W. James Nelson Self-organization of an acentrosomal microtubule network at the basal cortex of polarized epithelial cells J. Cell Biol., Dec 2005; 171: 845 - 855.

• Komeili A, Li Z, Newman DK, Jensen GJ. Magnetosomes Are Cell Membrane Invaginations Organized by the Actin-Like Protein MamK. Science. 2005.

• Capitanio M, Canepari M, Cacciafesta P, Lombardi V, Cicchi R, Maffei M, Pavone FS, Bottinelli R. Two independent mechanical events in the interaction cycle of skeletal muscle myosin with actin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006. 103:87-92.

December '05

• Kad NM, Kim S, Warshaw DM, Vanburen P, Baker JE. Single-myosin crossbridge interactions with actin filaments regulated by troponin-tropomyosin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 Nov 22;102(47):16990-5. Epub 2005 Nov 15.

November '05

• Dean SO, Rogers SL, Stuurman N, Vale RD, Spudich JA. Distinct pathways control recruitment and maintenance of myosin II at the cleavage furrow during cytokinesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 102:13473-8. 2005.

• Wozniak AK, Nottrott S, Kuhn-Holsken E, Schroder GF, Grubmuller H, Luhrmann R, Seidel CA, Oesterhelt F. Detecting protein-induced folding of the U4 snRNA kink-turn by single-molecule multiparameter FRET measurements. RNA. 11:1545-54. 2005.

• Terrak M, Rebowski G, Lu RC, Grabarek Z, Dominguez R. Structure of the light chain-binding domain of myosin V. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 Sep 6;102(36):12718-23. Epub 2005 Aug 24.

• Sciambi CJ, Komma DJ, Skold HN, Hirose K, Endow SA. A bidirectional Kinesin motor in live Drosophila embryos. Traffic. 2005 Nov;6(11):1036-46.

• Hoepfner S, Severin F, Cabezas A, Habermann B, Runge A, Gillooly D, Stenmark H, Zerial M. Modulation of receptor recycling and degradation by the endosomal kinesin KIF16B. Cell. 2005 May 6;121(3):437-50.

October '05

• Tyska MJ, Mackey AT, Huang JD, Copeland NG, Jenkins NA, Mooseker MS. Myosin-1a is critical for normal brush border structure and composition. Mol Biol Cell. 2005. 16:2443-2457.

• Sotomayor M, Corey DP, Schulten K. In search of the hair-cell gating spring elastic properties of ankyrin and cadherin repeats. Structure (Camb). 2005 Apr;13(4):669-82.
• News and Views: Asshmore, J. Channel at the hair's end. Nature. 432:685-686. 2004.

• Menetrey J, Bahloul A, Wells AL, Yengo CM, Morris CA, Sweeney HL, Houdusse A. The structure of the myosin VI motor reveals the mechanism of directionality reversal. Nature. 2005 Jun 9;435(7043):779-85.

• Wu KY, Hengst U, Cox LJ, Macosko EZ, Jeromin A, Urquhart ER, Jaffrey SR. Local translation of RhoA regulates growth cone collapse. Nature. 2005 Aug 18;436(7053):1020-4.

September '05

• Veigel C, Schmitz S, Wang F, Sellers JR. Load-dependent kinetics of myosin-V can explain its high processivity. Nat Cell Biol. 2005.

• Uenoyama A, Miyata M. Gliding ghosts of Mycoplasma mobile. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 102:12754-8. 2005.

• Carter NJ, Cross RA. Mechanics of the kinesin step. Nature. 2005 May 19;435(7040):308-12.